[Hiring] Client Accounting Services Lead @Eightx Business Services

Role Description

If you want to hand in the reports and the bank recs and log off, this isn't the job. If you're an accountant who can see why a clean close is worth real money to a founder on the day someone tries to buy their company, keep reading. That's who we want to talk to.

Every client we serve is building toward one thing: a business that's worth more because a buyer, a lender or an investor can trust its numbers. The arithmetic is simple.

• Value = Earnings × Multiple
• Multiple = Growth + Quality − Risk

Our fractional CFOs work on earnings and growth. Your team owns the other two terms: quality and risk.

• Bank recs done, every account, every month
• Month-end reconciled and signed off, on a close calendar people can plan around
• Inventory validated, loans scheduled, prepaids and accruals handled
• Shopify, Amazon and payment clearing accounts tied back to the general ledger
• Working papers that hold up to an auditor, a lender or a buyer's due diligence team

Qualifications

• 7+ years in accounting
• 3+ years leading a team of accountants or bookkeepers and reviewing their work
• Multi-client experience: public practice, an outsourced accounting or client accounting services firm, or a controller seat across several entities
• Deep technical accounting: accrual-basis accounting, leases, equity transactions, deferred revenue, FX revaluation
• Strong Xero and QuickBooks Online skills
• Ecommerce accounting experience: Shopify, Amazon Seller or Vendor Central, and multi-currency
• A record of building processes and SOPs that other people actually follow
• Fluent business English, written and spoken, and comfortable on camera with clients
• The ability to coach and empathize
• Ability to work remotely with enough overlap with North American business hours

Requirements

• Manage, coach and develop our accountants and bookkeepers, and help us hire the next ones
• Review work before it reaches a CFO or a client, give direct feedback, and hold the standard
• Plan capacity across the portfolio so deadlines are met without heroics
• Run the accounting team's weekly meeting, clear blockers, and fix recurring problems at the root
• Own month-end across every client, closed accurately within two to ten business days
• Sign off on close files, reconciliations and working papers
• Set and enforce standards for balance sheet accounts: fixed assets, loans, prepaids, accruals, deferred revenue
• Lead variance review across revenue streams (Shopify, Amazon, wholesale) and expense lines
• Coordinate year-end with tax accountants and CPA firms
• Write and maintain the SOPs, checklists and close calendar the whole team runs on
• Standardize charts of accounts, working paper templates, weekly flash reports and monthly packages
• Find where automation and AI can take work off the team, and make it happen with our AI team
• Act as the senior accounting contact for clients and their CFOs
• Join client calls, explain complex issues simply, and follow up with clear notes and action items
• Flag risks early. If something is going to be late or wrong, the CFO and the client hear it from you first

Benefits

• A competitive salary benchmarked to your market, plus a performance bonus
• Fully remote, from anywhere in the world, on a global team
• Generous time off, plus a company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• A leadership seat in a firm that's growing fast, with a real path to partner
• Work across a portfolio of ecommerce and consumer brands doing up to $150M

How to apply

Apply through the posting with your CV. Here's what happens next:

• A short video (2 to 3 minutes) about a close you inherited in a mess and what you did to fix it
• A screening call with our team
• A practical review with an anonymized close file
• Meet the founder and one of our CFOs, then an offer

Eightx is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.